Thin layer chromatography is used to analyse mixtures: determine the number, identity, and purity of compounds present in a mixture. This technique can also be used to visualize the progress of a ...

The wide range of chromatographic techniques share one common aim: to separate a material into its components. A material, your sample, is dissolved in a solvent, called the mobile phase. This mixture ...

Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) was widely used in the 1960s and 1970s for pesticide residue analysis, but only to a limited extent since gas–liquid chromatography (GLC) and high performance liquid ...